#Molly Garfunkel

[emometalhead]

@ramblinguitar tagged me to post 10 songs I like with names in the title! Thank you, Alexa!!

What A Catch, Donnie by Fall Out Boy

Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles

Janie's Got A Gun by Aerosmith

Dorothea by Taylor Swift

Judas by Fozzy

Molly (Sixteen Candles) by Sponge

Johnny Boy by Twenty Øne Piløts

Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel

867-5309 / Jenny by Tommy Tutone

Perry Mason by Ozzy Osbourne

Tagging: @no-fxn-club @inquisitiveheretic @duffmckagans @awrestlinggirlwholoves80sbands @arnold-layne and anyone else who wants to share!!

[andrasta14]

So the cover of my book journal has me feeling like uncultured swine again, because all the book titles on it are famous couples/duos in literature, tv shows and movies etc and at least half of them have me like: ?????

I'm enough of a nerd to want to know where they're all from, and it's been bugging me for years. But Googling them feels somehow unsporting to me. lol (Plus I think some of the spellings are French?)

So...see a pair you recognize? Let me know. 🙏

~ Couples Listed ~

Fanfan & Alexandre = ???

Lana & Clark = Superman

Paul & Joanne = ???

Andromacue & Hector = The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Leonard & Salaì = ???

Orpheus and Eurydice = Greek Mythology

Lisbeth & Miriam = ???

Mathilde & Manech = ???

Chimène & Rodrigue = ???

Emma & Dexter = ???

Yves & Pierre = Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé

Arlequin & Columbine = ???

Julien & Mme de Rênal = The Scarlet and the Black

Edward & Vivian = ???

Edith and Marcel = ???

Marty & Jennifer = Back to the Future

Franck & Ava = ???

Jack & Rose = Titantic

Elisabeth & Richard = ???

Chouchou & Loulou = ??? (The hell kind of names are those? lol)

Roger & Jessica = ??? (Idk the first thing that jumped to mind was Roger & Jessica Rabbit lol)

Figaro & Rosine = The Marriage of Figaro

Christian & Anastasia = 50 Shades of Grey

Leeloo & Korhen = ???

Abelard & Héloïse = medieval historical romance, unsure of details

Valmont & Cecile = Dangerous Liaisons

Sam & Molly = ???

Gaston & Melle Jeanne = ???

Drazic & Anita = ???

Don Juan & Charlotte = Don Juan/Don Giovanni

Mike & Susan = Desperate Housewives

Helen & Paris = The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Quasimodo & Esmeralda = The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Rachel & Ross = Friends

Marilyn & John = Marilyn Munroe and John F. Kennedy?

Satine & Christian = Moulin Rouge

Dorian & Henri = The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Tarzan & Jane = Tarzan

Edward & Bella = Twilight

Nino & Amélie = Amélie

Mulder & Scully = The X-Files

Arthur & Paul = Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine

Harry & Sally = When Harry Met Sally

Sandy & Danny = Grease

Benny & Joon = Benny & Joon

Toi & Moi = ???

Maverick & Charlie = Top Gun

Candy & Anthony = ???

Odysseus & Penelope = The Odyssey/The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Thelma & Louise = Thelma & Louise

Titus & Berenice = Titus and Berenice is a 1676 tragedy by Thomas Otway.

Ariane & Solal = ???

Paul & Virginie = Paul and Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1788).

Johnny & BB = ???

Cyrano & Roxane = Cyrano de Bergerac

Marius & Fanny = ???

Chloe & Colin = ???

Adam & Eve = The Bible

Tristan & Iseult = Tristan and Isolde

Bonnie & Clyde = the historical Bonnie & Clyde

Popeye & Olive = Popeye the Sailor Man

Simone & Yves = ???

Buffy & Angel = Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Lauren & Humphrey = Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart?

Carrie and Mr Big = Sex in the City

Harry & Ginny = Harry Potter series

Clarence & Alabama = ???

Alceste & Célimène = ???

Lancelot & Guinevere = Arthurian legend

~*~

Edit:

From @theduchessofboredom

#arthur & paul could be art (arthur) garfunkel and paul simon #paul & virginie is the title of a famous 18th century novel #nino and amélie is definitely Amélie :) #yves & pierre are yves saint-laurent and pierre bergé

From @that-laj

Marty & Jennifer are from Back to the Future, if they’re the Marty and Jennifer I think they are.

@didoscity

Mike and susan are from desperate housewives (embarassed to know this). Also arthur and paul are definitely, to me, arthur rimbaud and paul verlaine. sorry for simon and garfunkel 😂

oh and titus and berenice is the name of a tragedy by corneille!

[nornsfate]

NO-SKIP ALBUMS tag game

i wasn’t formally tagged in this- i saw @crumb ’s post and i really wanted to do it! i had an extremely hard time picking albums so i picked the ones that i feel like had a big impact on me/were prominent at some point in my life. i’m tagging @faggotfungus @allmoshnobrain @blowfishinthisup because ya’ll are my main music mutuals but no pressure! only do it if you want to!!

rules: share the albums that you can listen to nonstop. those lightning in a bottle-albums that scratch ur brain just right. every single track, an absolute banger. u could not skip one if u tried. no notes. stunning, show-stopping, immaculate. ur no-skip albums.

bonus & optional rules: 1) add a track rec for us to listen to! AND 2) share ur favorite line(s) from that track!

albums and track recs:

SWAGGER - FLOGGING MOLLY

selfish man: i don’t eat i just devour / been running every hour / all is me is all i need and that’s all that i care

ROMCOM - JAKEY

drive off a bridge: tell my lover that i’m sorry for these days i couldn’t save / know i love you from the morning to the night i drive away

NO CONTROL - BAD RELIGION

no control: there’s no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end / when we all disintegrate, it will all happen again / if you came to conquer you’ll be king for a day / but you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away

STARCRAWLER - STARCRAWLER

chicken woman: you think she’s mine / so maybe she is / but she ain’t got time for your foolish little tricks

THE MEANEST OF TIMES - DROPKICK MURPHYS

shattered: shattered, when people aren’t always what they seem / shattered, when the ones that we rely on break their word

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - SIMON AND GARFUNKEL

keep the customer satisfied: i get slandered / libel / i hear words i never heard in the bible /and i’m one step ahead of the shoe shine / two steps away from the county line / just trying to keep the customer satisfied

ROCKISDEAD - DOROTHY

medicine man: hey, you, medicine man / set me free and change my ways / hey, you, give me a holler / give me a holler, what do you say?

MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL - OF MONSTERS & MEN

from finner: and the waves that hit his face, marked the past / and the farrows of his skin, oh how time goes fast / and we are far, far from home / but we’re so happy

VENEMOUS RAT REGENERATION VENDOR - ROB ZOMBIE

the girl who loved the monsters: i am a child in need / watch me bleed / how can i live if i cannot feed? / i am an animal / no one knows / i limp around on broken toes

ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS

president gas: don’t cry, don’t do anything / no lies, back in my government / no tears, party time is here again / president gas is up for president

VILLIANS - EMMA BLACKERY

villians part one: i am a maverick / built to create / designed to destroy / and i am the quiver in your bones when you get annoyed

TOXICITY - SYSTEM OF A DOWN

ATWA: hey you, see me, pictures crazy / all the world i’ve seen before me, passing by / you don’t care about how i feel / i don’t feel there anymore

JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE- IDLES

samaritans: the mask of masculinity / is a mask, a mask that’s wearing me

ALL HOPE IS GONE - SLIPKNOW

sulfur: but the longest hours you’ll have in your life / are the ones you sit through to know if you’re right

METALLICA (THE BLACK ALBUM) - METALLICA

the god that failed: pride you took, pride you feel / pride that you felt when you’d kneel / not the word, not the love / not what you thought from above

[theimpossiblescheme]

soldiers, poets, and queens - playlists for ulysses, rosaline, prufrock, and caprizant for @bombawife‘s OC week (album art by @thedragonchilde)

ulysses: 01. setting up the courtroom - joby talbot | 02. bone + tissue - gallant | 03. still - colton ryan and molly gordon | 04. god bless the child - billie holiday | 05. how i am - jason howland | 06. thunder in a blue sky - namo feat. aedan peterson | 07. the nutcracker, op. 71, act I, scene 1: no. 4, arrival of drosselmeyer - pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky | 08. paper forest (birds) - emmy the great | 09. birdhouse in your soul - they might be giants | 10. hello my old heart - the oh hellos | 11. howl - black rebel motorcycle club | 12. when your feet don’t touch the ground - ellie goulding | 13. fragile - poets of the fall | 14. reflets dans l'eau - claude debussy | 15. relay - fiona apple | 16. god only knows - clay hine, drew mcmillan, tim brooks, and tim reynolds | 17. a long way past the past - fleet foxes | 18. lean - oh land feat. vitamin string quartet | 19. any other world - mika [listen]

rosaline: 01. mother and child reunion - paul simon | 02. garden song - phoebe bridgers | 03. la niaise - leila huissoud | 04. all of the women - allison russell | 05. just my imagination - the cranberries | 06. more than close - oneke | 07. what it is - amber mark | 08. i lost something in the hills - sibylle baier | 09. joy - nataly dawn | 10. glowing - the oh hellos | 11. the healing process - koh lantana | 12. night still comes - neko case | 13. blue skies - kathryn calder | 14. flower garden - joe hisaishi | 15. back in my body - maggie rogers | 16. olalla - blanco white | 17. te regalo - carla morrison | 18. it ends with us - steve mokwebe | 19. je suis pret - brooke fraser [listen]

prufrock: 01. the croquet match - joby talbot | 02. learning to fly - the weepies | 03. in my city - ellie goulding | 04. grace kelly - mika | 05. good old-fashioned lover boy - queen | 06. the 59th street bridge song (feelin' groovy) - simon and garfunkel | 07. song of the baron - yuji nomi | 08. on the street where you live - bill shirley | 09. romeo - donna summer | 10. everybody talks - postmodern jukebox | 11. king of the world - young rising sons | 12. shining star - earth, wind, and fire | 13. un sospiro - franz liszt | 14. into a fantasy - alexander rybak | 15. heavy balloon - fiona apple | 16. ain't no mountain high enough - diana ross | 17. feel it still - portugal. the man | 18. rounds - the oh hellos | 19. if the world turned upside down - goo goo dolls [listen]

caprizant: 01. six weeks - of monsters and men | 02. patience worth - faith and the muse | 03. hurricane - ms mr | 04. ivory tower - nova twins | 05. flowers - in love with a ghost feat. nori | 06. i know the end - phoebe bridgers | 07. so afraid - janelle monáe | 08. where did i leave that fire - neko case | 09. the girl i mean to be - daisy eagan | 10. supergirl - krystal harris | 11. cuando seas grande - miguel mateos | 12. hey you - pink floyd | 13. mood indigo - duke ellington | 14. pepper'n'sand - ingrid and the ministers | 15. s.p.c.l.g. (society for the prevention of cruelty to little girls) - the society girls | 16. bad trash - switchblade symphony | 17. four pink walls - alessia cara | 18. my friends - oh wonder | 19. ready now - dodie [listen]

[leechs]

the way women in their 30s on here act about the beatles and simon and garfunkel and shit is how me and molly act about the beat gen 

[arthur-character-showdown]

Round 2 Bracket and Round 1 Results Breakdown!

and here's a breakdown of round 1's results (winners in bold):

(See you in a couple days for round 2!)

Side 1:

D.W. Read 76.2% / The backstreet boys 23.8%

Bionic Bunny 36.1% / Mary Moo Cow 63.9%

Pal 78% / Vicita Molina 22%

Marina Datillo 77.5% / Carl Gould 22.5%

Buster Baxter 92.3% / Cheikh Diouf 7.7%

Ed Crosswire 15%/ Mrs. MacGrady 85%

Art Garfunkel 26% / The Brain 74%

Dad 81% / BINKY (Band) 19%

Wally 34.6% / Nadine 65.4%

Grandpa Dave 41.9% / Ms. Turner 58.1%

Dr. Fugue 19.6% / Fern Walters 80.4%

Maria Pappas 29.5% / Kate Read 70.5%

Joshua Redman 5.4% / Sue Ellen Armstrong 94.6%

Chip Crosswire 27.5% / Mr. Haney 72.5%

Muffy Crosswire 57.4% / Mei-Lin Barnes 42.6%

Grandma Thora 64.1% / D.W.'s Snowball 35.9%

Side 2:

Stanley 20.3% / Mr. Ratburn 79.7%

Tibble Twins 37.5% / Persimmony Glitchet 62.5%

Molly MacDonald 84.4% / Dark Bunny 15.6%

Ladonna 56.4% / Bud 43.6%

Arthur Read 85.1% / Amigo 14.9%

Rubella Deegan 57.8% / Jenna Morgan 42.2%

Francine Frensky 82.7% / Yo-Yo Ma 17.3%

Bailey 52.6% / Mom 47.4%

Binky Barnes 79.2% / Marie-Hélène 20.8%

Bubby 75.5% / Emily 24.5%

Alberto Molina 24.5% / Prunella Deegan 75.5%

James MacDonald 46.4% / Rattles 53.6%

Nemo 45.8% / Neil Gaiman 54.2%

Catherine Frensky 53.7% / Oliver Frensky 46.3%

Killer 36.1% / George Lundgren 63.9%

Slink 41.9% / Bitzi Baxter 58.1%

[hoodoo12]

song that you know all the words to?

Off the top of my head: All the words to several They Might Be Giants albums All the words to several Weird Al Yankovic albums All the words to several Muppets albums All the words to several Cure albums All the words to several Micheal Buble albums All the words to several John Denver albums All the words to several Elton John albums All the words to several Irish Rovers albums All the words to several Meatloaf albums All the words to several Fratellis album All the words to several Monty Python albums All the words to several Brian Setzer Orchestra albums All the words to several Indigo Swing albums All the words to several SR-17 albums All the words to the Beetlejuice, Something Rotten, Evil Dead the Musical, Damn Yankees, Spamalot, Chicago, Into The Woods albums All the words to The Blues Brothers, Footloose, Labyrinth movie soundtracks All the words to many Jim Croce, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Smothers Brothers, Great Big Sea, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphy's the CaveDogs, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Counting Crows, Dead Milkmen, Phil Collins, Billy Joel, Spirit of the West, Queen, Randy Newman, Barenaked Ladies songs None of that counts the old folk songs my family used to sing (The Fox, Old Popsy is Dead, Inky-Dinky-Do-Dum-Day, John Henry, etc) when I was younger.

[einsteinsugly]

Thank you! I did remember eric thinking about the gang as the Beatles but not really them listening to the Beatles on the show and I always thought that was a lil weird? I am not a listener and they are way before my time but like they are the biggest band in the world and weren’t they huge in the 1970s? It would make total sense for them all to be Beatles fans I think

The Beatles broke up circa 1970, at the very beginning of the 70s. Eric happily compares the gang to The Beatles on multiple occasions, so he's an obvious canonical fan, and Hyde wears a Beatles shirt at one point. I can see Donna being a fan, too. Kelso and Fez like the weird stuff, imo.

Eric is canonically a fan of The Beatles, Wings (given the poster), Styx, Aerosmith, Rush, Air Supply, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and KISS. I can see him growing out of the last two, since Pink Floyd has massive stoner vibes, and KISS seems to be a phase of his in the earlier seasons. I kind of base this off my Eric-y dad, as my Donna-ish mom divulged that he used to be a fan of hard rock, and I was surprised. He also says that he likes Lynyrd Skynyrd (saying that it's a quintessential American band), but that band screams more Hyde to me.

As for Donna, she's canonically a fan of Led Zeppelin, Pat Benatar, Kansas (she wore a t-shirt in season 7), and Janis Joplin. She also says she loves The Talking Heads in season 8 because there's a girl in the band, but at large, they seem more like a Kelso-y band to me. Fleetwood Mac has way more of a Donna-ish vibe, imo.

For Jackie, she canonically likes ABBA, Captain and Tennille, The Carpenters, and Peter Frampton. For the latter, she loved the guitar solo.

Hyde, on the other hand, wears so many band tees. Led Zeppelin (he wears lots of them), The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Aerosmith, AC/DC, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Grateful Dead. He totally took that Beatles tee from Eric, imo. He also listens to The Sex Pistols and Blue Oyster Cult, and tells Eric to be like Bruce Springsteen and not like Simon and Garfunkel in season 4. He, along with Eric, compares Eric Clapton to God. And he dances to Sinatra. :)

Meanwhile, Kelso's canonically a fan of KISS, Foghat, and Molly Hatchet, and Fez is canonically a fan of Stevie Wonder.

[hughjidiot]

One of these days I need to write more of Darryl and Scratch playfully teasing Molly over her relationship with Libby, as brothers tend to do. (Source: am a brother.) Even had an idea for a oneshot where Molly tries learning the guitar to serenade Libby.

(Scene: Molly on the couch with an acoustic guitar in her lap and reading a "Complete Moron's Guide to Guitar," flanked by Scratch and Darryl.)

Darryl: "Alright you've been practicing that thing for days, let's go Simon and Garfunkel."

Scratch: "Yeah come on Hall and Oates, whatcha waiting for?"

Darryl: (nudging Molly, who grips her book tighter) "Let's hear what you got, Loggins and Messina."

Scratch: (elbowing Molly's side, making her growl) "Hurry up, Rodgers and Hammerstein."

Molly: "Okay why am I two people?! If you're gonna tease me at least have it make sense!"

[chthonicrose]

hey so I feel like this sounds weird but: it being easier to listen to music has made me know music less well

I remember when I was a teenager and I didn't have any kind of mp3 player or anything and I would print out the lyrics to my favorite songs so I could sing them to myself when I couldn't listen to music

and now I can sing along to music I'm listening to, but I can't sing it without listening to it. I was bored at work today doing all this new hire paperwork shit and started singing to myself in the break room and the only songs I could think of were three things I learned in choir as a kid, and for some reason Such A Loser by Garfunkel and Oates, presumably because I listened to it on repeat for like three days a while back. most of the stuff I listen to and love I don't know well enough to sing. and that feels like a loss.

maybe I need to find a little notebook and fill it with song lyrics. I can't sing on the bus but there has to be a time available to me that I can participate in music instead of only consuming it.

I guess the exception to this is at temple. I know the prayers I sing every week! I could do avot v'imahot off the cuff! hell if I can sing hanahaki (bloom) by molly ofgeography, though, no matter how much I've listened to it. and I definitely listen to my favorite songs more than the once or twice a week I go to temple.

when did I become silence instead of song?

[aniseandspearmint]

Hi! Would you mind answering 1, 2 and 4 for the soft asks thingy? Hope you’re having a good day

what song makes you feel better? hmmmm, there are a lot really, mostly old songs my mom used to play in the car, so a lot of Nat King Cole, John Denver, and Simon & Garfunkel. If I had to pick one, maybe The Hawk and The Eagle (John Denver)?

2. what’s your feel-good movie? I have a handful of movies I go for when I'm just needing to watch something I know by heart and can wrap around me like a blanket. The Last Unicorn (classic, gorgeous work, and Molly Gru's speech is done so well), Krull (look at baby Liam Neeson in one of his first roles! Giggle at the bad dialogue and hammy acting from the lead! Look at that very well done stop motion giant spider!), Fantastic Planet (lets hear it for amazing niche science fiction! This movie is paper cut animation! And it's actually the first movie i can remember seeing, ever. Mom had a VHS copy when i was a kid and I loved it, but wasn't allowed to watch it as much as some bc mom didn't want to wear it out, because it was the only copy she'd ever been able to find), and Knives Out (a more recent edition but idk it's just so satisfying) are a few.

4. what flower would you like to be given? Hyacinths and sunflowers are my favorites!

[js337]

Something else I did this year besides keep track of everything I watched, was keep a list/playlist of some of the songs I heard for the first time each month throughout the year. Gonna share a bunch of them here, because why not! Ones in bold are the faves I found myself listening to the most and probably have a permanent spot on my playlist c:

(don't judge me on some of these lol)

Rosa Himmel by Jonathan Johansson (and Molly Sandén's cover)

Nothing to Escape by Fairbanks & The Lonesome Light

Replica by Mol-74

Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift

Scheiße by Lady Gaga

Chill Like That by Sunday Scaries and PiCKUPLiNES

The Song That United the World from the Bill & Ted 3 soundtrack

This is How You Walk On by Gary Lightbody & Johnny McDaid

Sleepwalking by All Time Low

小喋日和/Koshaberi Biyori by FantasticYouth

On the Way Down by Wrabel

Splinter Wolf by Kohta Yamamoto

To Be Enchanted by Sleeping At Last

I Have Never Felt More Alive by Madison Beer

I Am Here by Lindsey Ray and Taiina

All Waters by Perfume Genius

Be the Song by Foy Vance

Now is the Start by A Fine Frenzy

Can't Go Back Now by The Weepies

Headphones by I'm From Barcelona

Gladiator by Jann

Cha Cha Cha by Käärijä

What a Life by Scarlet Pleasure

ゾッコン/Zokkon by Mono No Aware

It Could Have Been Me by The Struts

Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel

How You Like That by Blackpink

Trying to Feel Alive by Porter Robinson

Bumpy Ride by Mohombi

海の幽霊/Spirits of the Sea by Kenshi Yonezu

Future Speeder by The Newton Brothers

Repeat Until Death by Novo Amor

A Symptom of Being Human by Shinedown

前前前世/Zenzenzense by RADWIMPS

なんでもないや/Nandemonaiya by RADWIMPS

C'est la Vie by Mika

Husavik (My Hometown) by Molly Sandén

One Last Song by Lord of the Lost

Apocalypse Calypso by Mika

青のすみか/Where Our Blue Is by Tatsuya Kitani

Akari by Soushi Sakiyama

Specialz by King Gnu

This Side of Paradise by Coyote Theory

More Than Words by Hitsujibungaku

Keep in Mind by 白鲨JAWS

OverThink by Fan Ka

Curazao by El Alfa, Farruko, Chael Produciendo

Just Pretend by Bad Omens

Scott Street by Phoebe Bridgers

[dandelioninajungle]

Thank you for tagging me Kristen! 💜 @xokristennichole

shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then list 10 songs you really like, each by a different artist. then tag 10 people to do the same thing

ON REPEAT…

1. …April Come She Will by Simon and Garfunkel

2. Yamashito by Dumb Bitches With Internet

3. Dancing Barefoot by Patti Smith

4. My Queen by Avi Kaplan

5. Juice by Lizzo

6. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square by Stan Getz

7. Girl From Mars by Ash

8. What A Catch, Donnie by Fall Out Boy

9. Classifieds by The Academy Is…

10. Stay With Me by Sam Smith

10 SONGS I REALLY LIKE (BY DIFFERENT ARTISTS)

1. Molly’s Chambers by Kings of Leon

2. Gold Lion by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3. Get Free by The Vines

4. Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac

5. The Storm by The Blackout

6. Answers by The Guns

7. Pure Morning by Placebo

8. Rebel Rebel by David Bowie

9. Boys Wanna Be Her by Peaches

10. Guacala Que Rico by Molotov

I never know who to tag!! But I’d love it if everyone did this?

[rawrampmag]

DEA MATRONA @DeaMatronaBand #LiveReport @TheGarageHQ #KrisBarrasBand

DEA MATRONA @DeaMatronaBand #LiveReport @TheGarageHQ #KrisBarrasBand

Any band that offers Simon & Garfunkel —and in particular Homeward Bound —at a sweaty-macho heavy rock show earns our unswerving respect! Some don’t know the song was written (by Paul Simon) about a return trip he was lokking forward to making to England (in 1964) and perhaps that song-fact inspired Belfast friends Mollie McGinn and Orlaith Forsythe of DEA MATRONA (literally, mother goddess) to…

[covers-on-spotify]

"America"

Original by Simon & Garfunkel

Covered by Courtney Marie Andrews, Molly Sarlé, Liz Cooper & the Stampede

[addierose444]

41 Songs for Summer 2021

In this post, I will be sharing 41 of my current favorite songs. While I did curate this list over the past week, there is not actually a summer theme to it. You can listen to the corresponding Spotify playlist here. If you like my recommendation-style posts, check out some of my favorite podcasts, YouTube channels, and books. This post is a bit different in that I’m not actually going to talk about and justify each song. The core of this list consists of 3-5 songs from each of my top musical artists/bands. Note that I’ve listed the songs in alphabetical order and marked my top pick with an asterisk. If you’re curious to read more about my musical history, click here. 

James Taylor has been my favorite musical artist for as long as I can remember. He is an extremely talented songwriter, guitar player, and singer. Here are five of what I consider his best songs.

Carolina in My Mind

Fire and Rain

Secret of Life

Something In The Way She Moves

You Can Close Your Eyes*

The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) has been my favorite band for quite a while. They are a country band consisting of lead singer Natalie Maines and sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer on vocals and instrumentals. 

I’ll Take Care of You

Landslide

Loving Arms

Not Ready to Make Nice

Wide Open Spaces*

Brandi Carlile is actually a band consisting of Brandi Carlile and identical twins Phil and Tim Hanseroth. I rediscovered their music last semester and have been listening to it a lot recently. I absolutely love the songs listed below but will point out that there is a good chunk of their music that I don’t particularly like. 

Caroline

Every Time I Hear That Song

Forever Young

The Joke

The Story*

Red Molly is a folk trio consisting of Laurie MacAllister, Abbie Gardner, and Molly Venter. In contrast to Brandi Carlile, I enjoy almost all of their music, but few of their songs would, on their own, make my list of favorites. 

Do I Ever Cross Your Mind*

Hold It All

Sing to Me

Simon and Garfunkel were a folk-rock duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. It wasn't until compiling this list of favorite songs that I realized they deserved special recognition. With that said, I listen to a very limited number of their songs and wouldn’t typically consider them a favorite. 

Homeward Bound

The Boxer*

The Sound of Silence

The next selection of songs is made up of ten of my all-time favorites.

Closer to Fine

Coat of Many Colors*

Cold Hearts / Closed Minds

Eyes of a Painter

Halley Came to Jackson

Leaving On a Jet Plane

Slip Slidin' Away

So Far Away

The Circle Game

The Fairest Dogwood Bloom

The Line Between

The Parting Glass

Yesterday

Your Song

You're So Vain

To round out the list, here are a few songs that have some sort of sentimental value and remind me of my childhood and/or family. 

I Will

Our House

Some of Shelly's Blues*

The Roseville Fair

Will You Love Me Tomorrow?